Major companies such as Amazon and Google on Wednesday signed a pledge to support the goal of at least tripling the world's nuclear energy capacity by 2050, on the sidelines of the CERAWeek conference in Houston.

Amazon, Google and Meta have joined a call by big, energy-intensive companies for governments and utilities to build more nuclear power in the latest boost to the industry’s revival. Oil group Occidental and chemical producer Dow are also among the eight large buyers of energy to sign a pledge to support the goal of tripling nuclear capacity by 2050.

As a result of the Honey expose, Google has now changed its Chrome extension policies concerning affiliate ads and marketing.

A new update to Google's Chrome Web Store policy should help protect shoppers from dubious affiliate marketing extensions.

Last year, the browser extension Honey got caught up in controversy over how it took affiliate revenue away from creators. Instead of only taking credit when it saved users money, Honey attempted to use its own affiliate ID for all sales. Google is now updating Chrome extension affiliate ad policies to explicitly forbid this practice.

Google says it's found a sweet spot between power and efficiency by employing the 'distillation' of neural nets.

Google unveiled Gemma 3, its latest Gemini-based open-source AI that developers can use to create efficient, high-end AI apps.